Down at the frog pond a few days ago. I think it's a northern Pickerel Frog.
Also a few days ago a juvenile Brown Headed Cowbird.
My wife gave me a weekend alone in Maine. Had some cleaning to do but also got a lot. I arrived around midnight Friday.
Saturday morning at the shore, a flock of Surf Scoters out in the bay.
I went out to the Schoodic area of Acadia National Park (ANC) and the whole peninsula was immersed in fog from the ocean. I didn't stay very long but got a photo of a great Blue Heron in the fog.
A red squirrel with a pine cone.
Ocean fog was so bad that I went inland instead. I took a drive to the place where I so frequently see things: Mud Creek.
I think that this is lesser yellowlegs. There were several again.
As usual, an Osprey was also there.
And like old friends, the belted kingfisher was on his dead stump.
Here is a series of 5 photos I was lucky to catch. As he got his catch.
First just sitting on the stump.
As I snapped the next photo it saw something and flew down to the water.
It came back with a fish and whacked it all around until the fish stopped flopping around.
After much whipping the fish around the fish finally was limp in it's bill.
Nice and dead, time to swallow.
After Mud Creek I want back to the town harbor.
Two herring gulls eating crab apples. They kept dunking them in the salt water while eating them.
The Lion's Mane Jellyfish are still washing up. This is about 16 inches diameter.
I went for a walk down to road from the house and saw this chipmunk.
At the shore down the street a spotted sandpiper.
Red Squirrel
The shore by the house had very small snails. These were all over and I don't recall ever seeing them before. They are much smaller than regular size periwinkles.
These little bugs were all over a dead Lion's Mane jellyfish.
Next morning started out cloudy. But I took a walk down to the shore and this bald eagle, probably the same one that lives nearby, swooped out and landed in the trees a good distance away.
The forecast was for the clouds to move out so I decided to head over to Mud Creek.
There were 5 or 6 young Common Mergansers in Mud Creek.
Some Yellowlegs again.
I went to a place called Wonderland.
In the ocean, I believe these are American Black Ducks.
This is a cormorant coming in for a landing
Not sure. Looks like a Junko but it seems a bit early for the junkos to return.
Driving home I passed a tidal bay and three Great Egrets were sitting on a rock. This is a long distance shot at 2278mm zoom.
They are on the rock in the center of the photo.
Back at the house on the rock that we climb down to get to shore a lobster had gotten itself caught and was dead.
So I left Maine this morning and got home this morning.
This afternoon, odd to see a nuthatch on the driveway.
And finally, my first cottontail in the yard so far this year.
Finished
